KDB Developer

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Churchill, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
The KDB Developer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining trading and risk management platforms. Key tasks include collaborating with teams for requirements gathering, implementing enhancements, and providing support for production trading systems. The role requires strong coding skills, particularly in KDB and Python, and the ability to analyze large amounts of data.
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Job Description

Purpose of the role

To design, develop, and evolve trading, risk management and other platforms that facilitate trading and regulatory objectives within the investment banking domain. 

Accountabilities

  • Design, development, and maintenance of high-performance trading platforms, risk systems, and applications catering to the needs of traders and market participants.
  • Collaboration with traders, strategists, and stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient technological solutions.
  • Implementation of new features, enhancements, and functionalities on trading platforms to improve performance, reliability, and user experience.
  • Stay updated on technological advancements, industry trends, and best practices to drive innovation and continuous improvement in trading platforms.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including business aligned SM&D teams, strats, compliance, and IT to address system issues and implement solutions.

Vice President Expectations

  • To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
  • If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
  • If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
  • OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
  • Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
  • Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
  • Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
  • Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
  • Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
  • Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
  • Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as a KDB developer to create and maintain KDB business facing functionality and infrastructure used for research, analytics in the credit business.  The role will require the authoring of APIs and visualization layers for products utilized by the SM&D team and sales and trading teams in our businesses in Markets  , as well as contributing to core components used more widely across the firm. This includes writing and maintaining a high-quality code, working to enhance the optimization framework and also to maintain all the model and feeds that are required for production trading.
The successful candidate is expected to engage in product development, client support and production of high-quality content for client and trader education.

Accountabilities:

  • Provide best in class service to Barclays clients.
  • Working with respective trading desk and technology to ensure implementation of business logic is as designed and fit for purpose. 
  • Build and maintain back testing and simulation framework.
  • Design of frameworks and functionality for the development and delivery of analytics.
  • Implementation, testing, and productionisation.
  • Understanding of existing bank processes.
  • Proactive identification of problems and issues and resolution of them.
  • Provision of required support in timely manner and to high quality.
  • Participation in team peer reviews of code, modelling and testing.
  • Participation in team knowledge sharing and presentations.
     

Essential skills:

  • Experience with software development and have worked extensively with Q/KDB & Python.
  • Experience with handling and analyzing large tick amounts of tick data.
  • Experience of building production quality infrastructure is essential.
  • Experience with big data analysis & visualization.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills to a wide audience is essential.
  • Experience of e-trading development is desirable.
  • PhD or masters degree in a quantitative, mathematical or scientific discipline is preferred.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of python and java languages.
  • Understanding of any of rates, credit and FX markets.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in our London Location.
 

Top Skills

Java
Kdb
Python
The Company
HQ: London
83,500 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately 83,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.

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